Improvement in camphor wash mixtures



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

O. W. UROZIER, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAMPHOR WASH MIXTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 11,247, dated July 11, 1854.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, U. W. CROZIER, ofKnoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee, have invented an Improved and useful Clothes-Refiner; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the composition and preparation of the same.

Eight (8) ounces of spirits of tnnpentine; four (4) ounces p tgpe aleohol; two (2) ounces spjrits c a rpplg gr; two (2) ounces nitrous or nitritTether; one (1) ounce agua a n rp pia. Mix the spirits of turpentine witli the alcohol, add the camphor and ether, and lastly the aquaammonia.

The above ingredients are put into a tight bottle, and when mixed agitate the fluid. The bottle should be secured by a tight cork when not in use.

Mode of using it: Prepare five gallons of hot water, dissolve one pound of soap in a smallport ion of it; then mix. Afterward add three table-spoonfuls of theliquid; then put in the clothes while the mixture is hot, taking care that every piece shall be thoroughly saturated. Let the clothes remain thirty minutes; then take them out and wring and boil them in the ordinary way of washing. Gontinue in the same way with your remaining clothes until the mixture is absorbed that you have prepared.

In the use of this liquid but little rubbing of the clothes will be required. Its use will save labor, time, andtrouble and the tear of clothes. They can be made cleaner and whiter than by the ordinary mode without injury to their colors or texture, and by the use of this liquid any person may be enabled to wash well.

Keep the bottle well stopped, and always shake it up before using it.

That I claim as my invention is- The combination of the several ingredients with camphor. Without the latter substance the only ingredient that contains the qualities of an essential or volatile oil would he the turpentine. By the addition of the camphor we have the peculiar qualities of the oil increased.

Volatile oil occurs in every part of odoriferous plants. (Ures Dictionary.) Berzelins considers cam phor a stearoptene. ('U. S. Dispensatory, page 155.) Stearoptene, or stearine, having the same import, is the solid constituent of fatty substances, as of tallow and olive oil converted into a crystalline mass by saponification with alkaline matter. (Ures Dictionary.) Fatty matters, when subjected to the action of alkaline lyes, undergo a remarkable change, being converted into three different acids, called stearic, margaric, and oleici (Ures Dictionary, page 1145.) Soap, in the most extended signification of the term, embraces all those compounds which resultfrom the reaction of salifiable bases in oils and fats. These consists of three principles, two solid, differing in fusibility, called s earine and margarine, and one liquid, 0 died oleine, of which there are two varieties. Stearine characterizes the fats which are firm and solid, as tallow, &c. From these facts there is no doubt of the saponaceous qualities of the camphor and its power as a detergent, and that it is avery important and valuable addition to the wash mixture.

0. W. OROZIER.

VVi tn'esses:

J. O. RAMSEY, G. W. OH RoHwuLL. 

